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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1926
Page
7
The Fitzgerald steamer arrives at port after escape from ice on the Great Lakes. It was snagged in the St. Marys River between Lakes Huron and Michigan two weeks earlier. Ice forms noted on upper works.
More than a dozen farm buildings and fields south of Chillicothe Maine are suspected to have been set ablaze by incendiaries. Local authorities investigate the sudden outbreak of fires reported across the area.
A toy balloon released near Paris travels about 890 miles, landing in Africa. The event illustrates how far a light object can drift across continents.
Brookside Colentha, a Fresien cow that produced 9045 gallons of milk over eight years, has died at Worthing England. A separate dispatch notes Eugene Deneual confessed to murder to shield a girl who reportedly committed the crime. Henry Le Was sentenced to six months for stealing two keys from a seaman in Liverpool. A Paris item reports two youths who dueled over Hortense Marnais receiving invitations to her marriage.
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